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Dick Van Dyke says he isn't giving up hope of winning an Oscar at age 99. The Mary Poppins actor has never received an Oscar nomination in his incredible 78-year career.

Van Dyke and his wife Arlene Silver gave an interview to People where they addressed the actor's ambitions as he nears his 100th birthday in December 2025. He noted that he's won every major Hollywood award "except an Oscar."

Dick Van Dyke Reveals His Hopes for an Oscar Win at 99

"Nobody would give me an Oscar," he joked, before adding: "My buddy, I was a friend of Stan Laurel's and he got one. Not posthumously."

Silver mentioned that all of Van Dyke's "idols" — Gene Kelly, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton— won Oscars throughout their careers, before predicting: "[Dick] will get one."

Van Dyke is one Oscar away from completing the prestigious Egot — an entertainment industry nickname for those who have won an Emmy Award,...

At this year’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, we were lucky enough to catch up with directors Sarah Appleton and Phillip Escott about their new horror documentary, Generation Terror, which had its world premiere at the event.

Immediately after the screening, the pair granted us the following interview about the documentary, and fans of their work will definitely be interested in hearing what they have to say. Appleton and Escott are already an established duo, as they previously co-directed another horror documentary called The Found Footage Phenomenon, which examines the found footage subgenre. While Escott individually helmed a documentary about the popular Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise called The Legacy of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Appleton individually helmed a documentary about filmmaker David Hamilton Grant called Damaged. She also previously co-directed a feature length documentary about Japanese horror called The J-Horror Virus alongside Jasper Sharp.

Generation Terror examines the horror genre throughout the 1990s,...

Our friends over at Severin Films just kicked off their epic Summer Sale with prices slashed by 50% on most catalogue releases, along with a handful of brand new offerings.

One of the standout new arrivals this week is the controversial 1981 horror movie Nightmare – also known as Nightmares in a Damaged Brain – now available on 4K Ultra HD from Severin. The 1980s horror film has been scanned from the internegative and various foreign print sources to create the most complete version Ever assembled.

The film’s 4K Uhd debut comes complete with a brand new roster of extras, including the first time Tom Savini has gone on camera about his controversial involvement!

Severin is also publishing a 193 page novelization of the film, written by Rue Morgue’s Michael Gingold, based on the original screenplay by Romano Scavolini.

Nightmare was famously named one of the “Video Nasties” back in the 1980s, a...

The controversial 1981 horror movie Nightmare – also known as Nightmares in a Damaged Brain – is coming back to life on 4K Uhd from Severin Films, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report this afternoon. The film has been scanned from the internegative and various foreign print sources to create the most complete version ever assembled!

Severin is also publishing a 193 page novelization of the film, written by Rue Morgue’s Michael Gingold, based on the original screenplay by Romano Scavolini.

It’s been called “graphic and unapologetic” (SexGoreMutants), “brutally effective” (Screen Rant) and “a forgotten classic” (Horror News). It remains the most reviled, controversial and misunderstood genre film of the ‘80s. Now “the most repulsive, degrading and horrifying movie ever made” (NY Daily News) can be experienced like never before.

When a homicidal mental patient (an enduringly disturbing performance by Baird Stafford) flees an experimental drug program, he’ll leave a 5-day trail...

Very recently I sat down with film director Jake West for a fascinating and lively discussion on the history of the ‘video nasty’. It was a highly peculiar time in British cinema and legal history which saw films effectively demonised for being, well, a horror film.

West and his co-producer Marc Morris release Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide today (8th November) via their Nucleus Films company. It is highly recommended viewing and really can claim to be the ‘definitive’ word on the subject. You can read my review here.

I interviewed Jake last year when the great horror comedy, Doghouse, was released and it was cool to chat again. Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide was a labour of love for the director and his co-producer but what we get is a brilliant dissection of British history, censorship and some good old-fashioned horror celebration.

If you’re a film fan, film...